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MS Amlin completes world-first Singapore ILS renewal
Will Ho, CEO, MS Amlin Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, said: “ We are also...
Asia’s largest slum Dharavi’s virus spread brought under control
With the highest population density of 2,27,136 persons per sq. km, Dharavi had 491 cases in April with the growth rate of 12% when the number of cases were doubling every 18 days.
As per an official release, the proactive measures adopted by the BMC brought down the COVID-19 growth rate to 4.3 per centin May and further down to 1.02 per centin June.
IRDAI forms panel to suggest ways to insure drone technology
Among other issues,the committee will make recommendations relating to design and development of product/s meeting the needs of RPAS owners and operators, including Third Party Liability,make recommendations relating to underwriting of such risks including the re-insurance perspective and examine any other relevant matter relating to the subject.
SoftBank-backed Lemonade plans to raise up to $286 million in IPO
The company, which started in New York in late 2016, is part of a growing number of young companies looking to shake up the insurance sector through a better use of technology.
The company says it has digitized the entire insurance process, replacing brokers and paperwork with algorithms and providing policies in as little as 90 seconds and claim payments in three minutes.
IRDAI asks insurance industry to guard against large-scale phishing attack campaign against Indian individuals and businesses
Any unusual activity or attack should be reported immediately to cert-in at incident@cert-in.org.inin the format prescribed by Cert-In (https://www.cert-in.org.in/PDF/certinirform.pdf)under intimation to IRDAI at infosec@irdai.gov.in.
The IRDAI has further said it has been brought to the notice of the authority that a website using domain name- www.irdaionline.org.in is advertising to the general public on sale of insurance and exams conducted by IRDAI. This domain name is not authorized by the authority.
Even six months after it began, plenty of people unaware of Covid-19
A recent assessment by the U.N. migration agency of displaced people in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland found very high levels of misunderstanding, with some people confusing Covid-19 with a mosquito-borne disease or thinking a key symptom of the respiratory disease was diarrhea.
Maharashtra bans guru’s ‘spurious’ coronavirus treatment
Earlier yesterday, Ramdev had launched Coronil and Swasari as Ayurvedic cure for Covid-19, stressing that the medicines had been tested in “a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial”, which found that “69 percent patients recovered in three days and 100 % patients recovered within seven days” of the treatment.
Hours after its launch, India’s federal government asked Patanjali to provide details about Coronil, trials and sample size and asked the company to stop advertising the product until it had been approved.
Railways cancels all regular train services till August 12
However, all special trains — 12 pairs running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1 — will continue, they said.
Apple,other U.S. goods from China held up at Indian ports: sources
The U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), a lobby group representing U.S. firms, told India’s commerce ministry in a letter dated June 23 that lack of clarity and delays could disrupt business and manufacturing operations.
India joins ‘Alliance for Poverty Eradication’ at UN as founding member
India has joined the alliance as a founding member and stressed that ending poverty is not just about monetary compensation but guaranteeing access of the poor to quality education, healthcare, clean water, sanitation, decent housing and social security.
WHO warns of oxygen shortage as COVID cases set to top 10 milli
The new coronavirus has hit 9.3 million people and killed more than 480,000 so far and is rising by about 1 million cases per week. This has pushed oxygen demand to 88,000 large cylinders per day, or 620,000 cubic metres of oxygen, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.